Tobacco traders lived like kings

 

(Evening Times) This tobacco merchant's house, hidden away in Miller Street, had seen better days when this picture was taken sometime in the 1950s
The house was built by John Craig in 1775 as one of a row of villas, and bought in 1782 by Robert Findlay of Easterhill, a tobacco importer. His son, also Robert, developed the Virginia Buildings in 1814 as premises for his generation of tobacco traders. Continued